What Is This World Coming To?

An Ohio judge ruled that counties must accept park benches as legal residences for voting purposes in the general election.   U.S. District Judge Edmund Sargus also ruled that provisional ballots can’t be invalidated because of poll worker errors.

So if you vote in Pennsylvania, there’s still plenty of time to drive to Ohio, claim a stretch of sand along Lake Erie is home, and vote again.

In Mississippi, you don’t need identification to prove you are who you say you are.  So the fact that somebody stuffed the voter rolls with dead people means anybody can walk in and vote for them.  How bad is it?

Sue Sautermeister is working hard in the First District of Madison County to start a purging of the voter rolls as soon after the election as possible. She has file drawers full of names of people who haven’t voted in years and are known to be dead. “We have people who registered in 1965 who have never voted,” she says. “We have 486 people (registered who are) over 105.”

Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann notes that “190,000 new voters have registered for this election and he believes the turnout will be historic.”  Ya think?

Obama has inspired some very dedicated campaign workers, including a “Palestinian in a Gaza refugee camp is doing his part to get out the vote for Barack Obama. With a little help from the Internet, 24-year-old Ibrahim Abu Jayab is cold calling random American families from his parent’s home imploring them to vote Obama, according to the AP. “